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    An individual's property rights expand to include previou... — Carmelics
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    An individual's property rights expand to include previously unowned goods when that individual's labor is mixed with those goods.

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    • 1.Each individual owns their own labor.
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    • 2.When labor is mixed with objects held in common, the individual's ownership of that labor extends to the object.
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    • 3.Rights to control follow from ownership of what is inseparably joined.
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    • 1.Mixing one's labor with an unowned good need not transfer ownership; one may simply lose one's labor, as Nozick's 'tomato juice in the ocean' objection illustrates.
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    • 2.No non-circular principle determines why labor-mixing generates property rights over the whole object rather than merely a claim for compensation for expended effort.
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    • 1.Locke's own proviso requires that labor-based appropriation leave 'enough and as good' for others, a condition systematically violated in finite or rival resource contexts.
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    • 2.Intellectual goods are non-rivalrous, meaning their appropriation via IP rights actively diminishes others' ability to use the same ideas, failing the sufficiency proviso on its own terms.
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    Each individual owns their own labor.Intellectual goods are non-rivalrous, meaning their appropriation via IP rights ...Locke's own proviso requires that labor-based appropriation leave 'enough and as...Mixing one's labor with an unowned good need not transfer ownership; one may sim...
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    No non-circular principle determines why labor-mixing generates property rights ...Rights to control follow from ownership of what is inseparably joined.When labor is mixed with objects held in common, the individual's ownership of t...

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    Lockean rights standardly include the right to gain more property than...81%When labor is mixed with objects held in common, the individual's owne...80%When an individual labors on an unowned object, rights to control over...80%When a person labors on a previously unowned object, subject to certai...79%

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    Consider a more formal version of Locke’s famous argument. Individuals own their own bodies and labor—i.e., they are self-owners. When an individual labors on an unowned object, her labor becomes infused in the object and for the most part, the labor and the object cannot be separated. It follows that once a person’s labor is joined with an unowned object, assuming that individuals exclusively own their body and labor, rights to control are generated. The idea is that there is an expansion of ri
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